Nothing terrifies me more then getting chased in the dark by some crazy person. Except for snakes.
It's perfume. Spoiler
You should have waited until August 12 2015. Then it could have been an anniversary celebration.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmppppppppppppp 1. America is not the greatest country in the world. Because it's not. We are the best at incarcerating our citizens and making ourselves fat. 2. Religion of any kind doesn't hold all the answers. Most of them have recurring themes, and most haven't or won't update with the times. 3. The DNR sucks. Hunting is great and all, but when populations of animals fluctuate and decrease on such drastic levels you clearly don't know what you're doing. 4. Humans are the worst thing to happen to this planet. What have we done to benefit other species? We only try to save one once they start to become endangered, which is 90% of the time our fault. 5. Animals are not stupid. Yes they have different levels of intelligence, and varying sizes of brains, but no animal is inherently stupid. Your cat is not stupid because it doesn't come when you call it. It is simply intelligent enough to realize there is no benefit in coming to you. 6. Animal abusers should be tried on the same level as child abusers. Not sex offenders, but people who abuse and beat their children. Dogs and cats have the intelligence level of a one to two year old child, and when you get one, you take on the responsibility to feed and care for them, like a child. 7. The legal system needs to be changed. You should not have to wait months or years for your trial to commence. You should not be judged by a jury of your peers, because most of the time your peers are biased or unintelligent. 8. Abortion should be legal. Making it illegal will not stop abortions, it will only stop safe abortions. Plus you're basically saying that a girl who is raped and gets pregnant is at fault for letting it happen and should bear the baby as a result. 9. Menstrual care items like pads and tampons should be free. Not to an extreme amount, but they are a necessity to women everywhere, and we should be able to have access to them without paying eight or nine dollars a box. Not to mention the number of bathrooms that don't have a dispenser or waste basket is astounding. 10. Racism is caused by racism. Once you stop seeing someone as black or white, then you'll stop racism. It only happens because we recognize that people are different and treat them as such. And once again. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmppppppppppppppppppppp.
So basically what I'm getting is that it's nowhere near finished, and they're not sure when it will be.
Says the guy with the gas mask.
I'm pretty excited for this. The Harry Potter series was nothing short of magical, and though it went through its number of directors, I was impressed with J.K Rowling's handling of the studio. This should be nothing but gold, considering how well done the fifth, sixth and seventh Harry Potter books were. Who better to write the movie then the author of the universe herself? And if her twitter is anything to go by, she has thought out every possible plot hole.
Everything about this movie screams "wrong" to me. Jared Leto will do his best, I'm sure, and his voice was spot on in the trailer, but his makeup, his tattoos, and the f*cking grill on his teeth are all wrong. That's not his fault, I realize, but you can only do so much with what you're given. And honestly following up on Heath Ledger's act is something that no one in their right mind should have attempted. Harley Quinn: Where should I start? She looks like a cotton candy princess gone all wrong. I had half hoped they would at least try and take some of the character from the Arkham Asylum series, but in the trailer she's either acting like a stripper or talking like she didn't graduate high school. Harley Quinn was a licensed psychologist before she met the Joker, and an extremely intelligent woman. She might be a little crazy, but she wasn't stupid. Her outfit screams that she's a ****, where in the comics she had on jumpsuit type clothing, and in the Arkham series she at least wore a half decent skirt before switching to respectable pants. Hopefully I'm wrong, and the trailer didn't portray her correctly, but Harley Quinn was always just as intelligent, if not more so then the Joker, she just happened to become codependent in an abusive relationship. Bullseye: Since when has he been a decent guy? I've never seen Will Smith portray anything but the hero, and from the looks of the trailer, that's exactly what they're making Bullseye. He was never a good person, he was an assassin that was an extremely good shot. Yeah no one is born that way, and maybe I missed the story arc where Bullseye used to be a class A citizen before he decided to kill people for a living, but while I'm a Will Smith fan, I'm not impressed. Didn't reall see too much of anyone else to judge whether they're good or not, and honestly I didn't really recognize anyone else, which is a lot scarier then the detractors I mentioned above. That's without mentioning the poor PR work the director and studio have done and the nonexistent attempts to plug the leaking photographs and video. It was a ballsy idea, but I doubt it's going to be anything except a disaster.
The teaser that was released last night for the trailer, (which has been called a trailer for a trailer), was pretty hilarious. They mentioned how they messed up the last characterization and some other jokes that related. I'm kind of curious to see if Ryan Reynolds can pull off this part. He's been trolling twitter for a certain amount of time with Deadpool memes, images and jokes to create hype, so if he can play the role half as well as he does that it should be a decent movie. I'm really excited to see they're going to break the fourth wall and keep him in character this time. It would be nice to have a superhero movie that's more humor then drama, although I'm sure we'll see a fair amount of both. I've been getting more wary as time goes on of things that are touched by Marvel, but perhaps this will restore some faith in the masses. And it's coming out sooner rather then later! Would I get in trouble for bringing a chimichanga to the theatre for the premiere?
Again, @Calxiyn gets it right. ALL THE TIME. Axel tried his hardest to get Roxas to remember. The first two times he saw Roxas, he didn't get exhausted. When talking didn't work, he tried sparring with Roxas to get him to recall the days they spent together. Axel was really disappointed and upset afterwards, and even says "Fine, I see how it is", or something to that effect. When Axel comes back for a third time, he plans on dragging Roxas back, willing or not. He gets so excited when Roxas asks if they're friends, before realizing that the memory isn't complete. Roxas only recalls after he kicks the sh*t out of Axel in the basement of the mansion. They agree to meet each other in another life and say goodbye. I always took this part to mean that Axel had disappeared, but I realized that it was Axel saying goodbye to Roxas, instead of vice versa. Afterwards, Axel disappears for a bit, only to return when he kidnaps Kairi. He was quite a gentleman about it too. And then after his plans to try and reunite with Roxas through Sora don't work, he helps Sora out, up until the famous scene at the end. Through all of this Axel has been going through some extreme turmoil on an emotional level. He's sad, guilty, angry, and lonely. Even one of those emotions is hard to deal with, but all of them lead to the victim suffering from anxiety and depression nearly every time. Anyone who has dealt with depression knows how exhausting it can be even on a physical level. I also believe that when he was fighting in the Betwixt and Between, he was using the battle as an outlet for all his pain and anger. Getting your strength from emotion is also tiring on a physical and psychological level, and between the anger, pain, and depression, he really didn't have much more to give during the fight. To summarize, I believe that throughout the majority of Kingdom Hearts II he was fighting depression, and when things culminated in the Betwixt and Between, he decided to do one last thing to make up for all he felt he was guilty of; not being able to save Roxas, kidnapping Kairi and handing her to Xemnas, which hurt Sora, thus hurting Roxas. When he used his last special ability to get rid of all the enemies and save Sora (thus saving Roxas), he felt like he had made up for all the bad he had done, and he could go in peace.
Traverse Town was always my favorite in Kingdom Hearts. It showed Sora he wasn't alone in the devastation he had suffered, or the loneliness and fear because of it. He managed to find a group of people that accepted him and helped him. No matter where he went in his journeys, he could always return and talk to Yuffie, Leon, Aerith and Merlin, and learn new things or get new items. The story also makes you go back there to speak to them for their knowledge. Cid helps you create gummi ships that rival anything the Heartless can come up with, and you can help some of the townspeople make their lives a little better. You even get to see Pinocchio and Geppetto after you rescue them, and you can reunite the Dalmatian family. It was heartwarming, kind, and a gentle reprieve from the darkness that Sora had to face time and again. Plus, you know, the music was pretty calming.
It's always really hard to reply after @Calxiyn but here goes. I always assumed that everyone was in on the Organization's plans. It's not like Xemnas was exactly sneaky about what he wanted to do with the Organization's abilities. I'm assuming if even Axel knew what was up, and he's one of the lower ones on the totem pole of Nobodies, then everyone knows and is going along with it. Marluxia's rebellion was just him doing his own thing. I always took it as a way of showing that even Nobodies had personalities and differences in opinion. Marluxia might have even eventually returned to the Organization after he was done playing around. The way he behaved, it never seemed like Castle Oblivion was much more then a game to him, something he was playing around with. I honestly think that he underestimated Sora's strength, and Namine's own power of will. Other then that, yeah, pretty much refer to that up there.
Belatedly wishing you, wherever you are, several nights of revelry and tom foolery and buggery and whatever else you do for your birthday week.
Anyone else going to be playing? And by playing I mean lights off, doors closed, sound turned way up, and truthfully picking the things that scare the sh*t out of you the most.
I honestly thought this was just a corpse in the river. Square Enix had a surprisingly E3, but they've promised things before. Cutting Stella was probably a time saver for them, but a mistake for the story. From the little I've seen of Luna, she looks disappointingly like a stereotypical damsel in distress. Hopefully I'm wrong. The battle system looks cool, it's all very pretty, but they've been promising this game for almost a decade. I'm not going to hold my breath until I hear that it's gone gold. Hopefully they can surprise us all with a timely release, but at this point, with Kingdom Hearts 3 AND Final Fantasy 7: The Remake, I don't think they're going to.
You can't touch the book. There's no sound of pages being turned, or the feeling of a well loved book's cover crackling beneath your fingers. There's no smell of musty paper, or the weight of it on your lap. You don't have to hold a book light to read under the covers, and you don't have to worry about paper cuts. You don't get to watch your collection of hardcovers and paperbacks grow on the shelves of your home. You can't proudly display the covers of an entire series, or buy cute little book ends to hold them together. You can't go into your little home grown library, letting your fingers slide across the bindings until you decide to pick up a book that you haven't read in years. Instead, you power on your tablet, slide your fingers across a bacteria filled screen as your eyes strain to read the black words against a white background. There is no sound as you turn the pages, and your library isn't defined by the number of shelves, but the amount of gigabytes in your device. When that space becomes full, or overwhelming, you simply delete a book. When you want to find a specific title, you just have to type in the title in the search bar. You're limited by a battery that will eventually run out, tying you to a plug in. Yeah, you can read the same exact thing in a different way. Whatever floats your boat. But nothing will be able to replace the sheer poetry of reading an actual book.
Where's the Joker?
My life has seriously been that much emptier without your adorable self.